Abstract
The four-step problem-solving process outlined by George Pólya (1973) in his masterpiece How to Solve It is a simple yet thorough method of improving students' abilities to solve problems. The process focuses on heuristic reasoning, whose purpose, according to Pólya, is to “discover the solution of the present problem” (1973, p. 112). Pólya's problem-solving process is simple enough for an elementary school student to understand and apply, yet thorough enough to be useful to mathematics graduate students. Teaching students to solve problems, regardless of their complexity, is one of the most important lessons that teachers can pass on.
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